Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Hello all and welcome to a new challenge at MMM! It's the first of the month, so happy August to you all.

Our challenge this month is a photo challenge, and here is our graphic for this month:

Well, as you can see, my contribution is a rather loose interpretation, but hey ho, I tried......

But before I tell you more, our wonderful sponsor this month is no other than Indigo Blue

I used the following two stamp sets for my project: Victorian Garden and Country House, and created a dreamy page for my nature journal.

I created my background with a mix of Oxide and normal Distress Inks and then slowly built up layers of stamping using the images from the stamp sets, stamping again with both Oxide and Distress Inks. The darkest layer in the foreground was stamped with a Big Brush Pen. The moon was done with the help of a mask.

Lots of spritzing and flicking to make the inks react with one another and then I added a few white high lights with a white pen.

The sentiment is part of the Victorian Garden set, sorry the photo turned out a bit blurry...

Well that's it for today, for further details on the challenge please head over to Mixed Media Monthlyand of course we all hope you will play along with our challenge and if you do, don't forget to add our graphic to your post to qualify for our prize!

Thanks for your visit today, and have a happy, healthy and creative month!

I think your interpretation is brilliant Astrid, it has a wonderful ethereal quality to it with the gentle stamping of the beautiful gate in the background. The foliage stamping looks wonderful too. Beautiful work! Hugs, Anne xx

Very beautiful and I really locve how the colors turned out after all the spritzing, and it can be hard to control some times with these, but you managed to make a masterpiece once again. Very very beautiful page here.

What an amazing piece, the layers of colour and stamped images are beautiful and give the piece a magical dreamlike quality. I love the quote you added too, it ties with the imagery beautifully 😀. Wishing you a very Happy August! J 😊 p.s. thanks so much for visiting my blog and you lovely comments! J x

Beautiful card Astrid. I love the faint shape of the window in the background, what a wonderful backdrop for your glorious flowers. Wonderful quote too, a fantastic interpretation of the photo challenge image. hugs :)

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